Sofa-bed



(ModeL) I v W. D. FISHER.

SOFA BED.

Patented Mar.6, 1883.

|N\/ ENTER WITNEESEE WILLIAM D. FISHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SOFA-BED.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 273,352, dated March 6, 1883.

Application filed February 14. $82. (Model) I To all whom tt may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. FISHER, of Chicago, Illinois, haveinvented a new and usclul Sofa-Bed, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of sofabeds in which the back of the sofa is turned down to form with the seat a double bed, and which have endgates for the support of the back.

My invention consists in certain combinations and arraugeinentsof parts, as will be more fully hereinatter described, and pointed out'iu the claims.

Reterence is made to the accompanyitig drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation ot my sofa, with a portion of the back and seat broken away to show the end-gate turned for the support of the bick; Fig. 2, a detailed view of the head of the sota-frame, shown in perspective; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, showing in dotted lines the action of the stop and hinge controlling; the talling head. Fig. 4 is a detailed view of the head of the bed, showing the falling head dropped, the bed-frame in its position when used for a bed, and the devices for securing it to the sofa-frame.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A Arepresent a sofa-frame, constructed in the manner usual with this class of sofa-beds.

a a are respectively the trout and back legs of the head of sofa-frame; a a, respectively the trout and back rails of sofa-frame.

Bis the end-gate hinged to head, and B the end-gate hinged to foot, of sota-bed; b b, respectively the front and back legs of gate B.

(J is the sofa-bed frame, made in two sections; 0, the seat ofsofa or front section ofbed, and c theback of sofa or rear section of bed. These sections are hinged together, as shown in Fig.4.

D D are stop-hinges, formed by riveting or otherwise suitably securing the plates d d together at d, so as to form a pivotal-connection at that point.

01 is a lug rigidly projecting from plate 01 andlyingjust within the are described by the lower end of the plated, turning on its pivot t dill The legs a a of the sofa and b bof the endgate are divided into two sections each, the division being made on ail-inclined plane passing through the legs a. little above their horizontalcenter when the gate'is thrown open into the same line as the head ot'sofa. The sections of the legs a a are hinged together, as shown, by the stop-hinges D D. The section of legs I) and I) are hinged together in any suitable manher. The gate B is hinged to leg a, preferably by four hinges; but two broad hinges may be used, or anyother secure mode of hinging the lower section of a to lower section of b and. up-

per section of a. to upper section of b.

c c are semi-cylindrical grooves, exactly opposite each other, in the adjacent longitudinal rails of the SUfa-Ut'd trnine G, and two of which arehalf shown in section in Fig. 4.

c c are pins projecting from the top of rail a 0 o are cleats having vertically-inclined front faces, and are rigidly secured to the under side of the front of the end rai s of bedframe G, and arranged so as to abut against the inner face of rail a".

The grooves c (Pot bed-frame fit accurately over the pins 0 projecting from sofa-frame rail a A pin or other means of support projects from inside of each folding end-gate to receive section 0 of bed-frame when extended horizontally.

In order to make the description of my invention clear, I will give a brief review ot the operation of the different parts of my sofa-bed.

If the sofa-frame is opened into the position partly shown in Fig. 2, the bed may he lifted in to sofa-frantic until the cleats c c arestopped by the rail a of sofa-frame. The back rail of section 0 of frame 0 should then be lowered. The grooves c a will be found to embrace on one side the pins 0 c. The frame 0- is thus locked in place, the cleats c c preventing it from going forward and the pins of c from shifting backward. If, now, the section 0 is raised into a vertical position and the endgates closed against it, the device will be arranged for a sofa, as shown in Fig. 1. If then the gates are turned back'into line with the head and foot of sofa, the back lowered into line with the seat, and the head drawn back, the bed will be formed, the stop-hinge acting as a substantial and secure means of supporting the head at an angle giving the greatest amount of comfort to the occupant of the bed, besides adding to the bed the full length .of the falling head. The operation of the stop- 5 hinge is clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the draw- 15 ing heads and folding end-gates with the stop hinges D, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a sofa-bed, the combination, with the frame 0, carrying the cleats c 0 and provided I with grooves 0 c of e sofa-frame having its back rail provided with Vertically-projecting pins, as and for the purposes shown.

4. The combination, in a sofwbed, of the folding gates with the falling head. the stophinges D, and the bed-frame 0, all substantially as shown, and .for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM D. FISHER.

Witnesses:

J. H. LAWLUR, P. J. LAWLOR. 

